Compulsory nursery schooling in Romania?

In the recent Pisa study Romania came 34th out of 43 countries. Education Minister Cristian Adomnitei now plans to reform the education system and introduce compulsory nursery school for all children above the age of three. Marius Nitu comments: "In theory, compulsory nursery school is a wonderful idea that could help smooth out the differences between children starting school. But in reality no one has taken into account the fact that the first prerequisite for a successful law is its enforceability. Bucharest would need another 15,000 nursery school places. Moreover, in other European countries most nursery schools have groups of 20, not 40 to 50, as we do here in Romania... Most of Bucharest's nurseries have only one room for eating, sleeping and playing. In rural areas the law will be even more difficult to enforce because even if a nursery exists there is rarely any way of getting the children to it. There are no buses for them."

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